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Robots Need the Real World with Zachary Greenberger

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:27:24 GMT

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Zachary Greenberger has spent his career in connected mobility, from working on Tesla’s Model 3 to six years at Lyft, and now as CEO of Nexar and Nauto.

Today, their network includes roughly 350,000 connected cameras capturing around 300 million miles of road every month.

But this conversation is not really about dash cams.

It is about what happens when AI leaves the screen and enters the physical world.

In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman-Eraqi sits down with Zachary Greenberger, CEO of Nexar and Nauto, for a conversation about autonomous vehicles, physical AI, real-world data, leadership, and what machines still need to learn before they can safely operate around us.

For years, autonomous vehicles were trained heavily through simulation.

But eventually simulation reaches a limit.

A traffic cone moves. A child rolls a ball into the street. Debris flies across a highway. A road changes overnight.

The real world does not behave like a clean simulation.

That insight changed how Zach and the Nexar team saw the company.

What started as a network of connected cameras became something much bigger: a way to capture the rare, messy edge cases that autonomous systems need to understand.

That led to BADAS, Nexar’s Beyond ADAS world model.

And something surprising happened.

The same model trained around driving could identify collision risk in drones, forklifts, delivery robots, humanoid robots, and other physical environments.

The lesson was bigger than cars.

If AI is going to move through the physical world, it needs to understand how the physical world actually behaves.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why real-world data becomes critical as autonomous systems improve

• Why edge cases may be more valuable than millions of ordinary miles

• How BADAS moved beyond cars into robots, drones, and other physical systems

• What Zach learned taking over a founder-led company and later bringing teams together

• Why “debate hard, but be kind” is central to how he builds culture

This is a conversation about autonomy, physical AI, data, leadership, culture, and why teaching machines about reality may require something simulation alone can never provide: reality itself.

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Why would anyone invest in that? with Gil Dibner

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:15:19 GMT

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In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Gil Dibner, General Partner of Angular Ventures, for a conversation about venture capital, AI hype, non-consensus founders, fiduciary responsibility, and why the best investments often look strange before they look inevitable.

Gil describes himself as geographically confused: American, Israeli, based in London, investing across Europe and Israel.

That outsider position shaped how he thinks.

He is drawn to outsiders. To founders with something burning inside them. To technologies that do not fit neatly into a hype cycle. To companies where the first reaction might be: “Why would anyone invest in that?”

In a market where venture dollars are concentrating into fewer funds, fewer companies, and bigger AI rounds, Gil argues that the old craft of venture still matters.

But in venture, “simple” is never that. AI has made demos easier, valuations higher, metrics noisier, and consensus more expensive. Gil explains why founders need to understand the difference between real conviction and market heat and why investors need to remember they are managing other people’s money.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why AI has created strange new dynamics in startup funding

• Why too much capital can distort both founders and investors

• What makes a founder “best in class” or truly one of one

• Why Angular looks for non-consensus companies others may overlook

• Why AI adoption may be massive, but still slower and messier than the hype suggests

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Can you love a Recommendation Engine? with Dvir Ginzburg

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:07:07 GMT

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In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Dvir Ginzburg, Founder & CEO of Encore AI, for a conversation about revenue-generating AI agents, enterprise sales, customer delight, and why most AI projects fail when they move from demo to delivery.

Dvir started inside the world of recommendation systems, working for Meta and Microsoft.

But the more he worked on them, the more he realized something uncomfortable: he did not like the experience those systems created. People ignored banners. They ignored “you may also like” recommendations. They ignored offers that technically made sense but failed to guide them through a real decision.

Then ChatGPT changed what felt possible.

Instead of another banner or recommendation widget, Dvir saw a different future: AI agents that could guide customers through meaningful financial decisions like opening a deposit account, increasing credit, taking a loan, onboarding, collections, or other revenue-generating moments.

The idea sounds simple.

Help customers decide.

Increase conversion.

Automate revenue interactions.

But in enterprise AI, “almost right” is not good enough. A 90% accurate agent can still fail across a multi-step customer journey. Prompting alone breaks down. Rules contradict each other. Bad data leaks into the conversation. And the buyer does not care how good the demo looked if the agent fails in production.

Dvir explains why Encore’s approach is built around learning from top human performers inside the organization, not just stacking prompts. The goal is not to create another chatbot. It is to understand how the best bankers, loan officers, collectors, and relationship managers actually guide customers then turn that into AI agents that can drive real business outcomes.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why Dvir left Microsoft to build in the startup world

• Why recommendation engines stopped feeling good enough

• How AI agents can move from support deflection to revenue generation

• Why “90% accurate” can still fail in customer-facing conversations

• Why prompting alone is not enough for enterprise AI

• Why delighted first customers matter more than signing five messy ones

• How AI is changing the people, pace, and agency inside startups

This is a conversation about enterprise AI, customer trust, revenue, delivery, founder discipline, and the difference between building a great demo and building something customers can actually depend on.

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150 Startup Bets with Itamar Novick

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:15:46 GMT

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Itamar Novick has spent 15 years investing in startups, backing more than 150 companies, including early bets connected to unicorns, decacorns, and public companies.

But this conversation is not about the glamour of venture capital.

It is about the traps.

The mistakes that repeat. The patterns that quietly kill startups. The “good ideas” that look smart on the outside but drain years of time, money, and founder energy.

In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Itamar Novick, Founder & General Partner of Recursive Ventures, for a conversation about VC, founder psychology, AI, startup anti-patterns, and what it really takes to build a venture-backed company.

Itamar has seen the startup journey from multiple sides: operator, angel investor, VC, board observer, and early supporter of companies from seed to IPO and beyond.

That experience taught him something most founders learn too late:

Success is hard to copy.

Failure patterns repeat.

From elephant hunting to “if we build it, they will come,” Itamar explains why many founders don’t fail because they are lazy or unintelligent. They fail because they follow patterns that feel logical in the moment — but destroy the company over time.

He also explains why early-stage investing is still mostly about the team, why great founders can pivot through broken markets, and why AI has changed the minimum bar for starting a company.

Today, showing up with only an idea is no longer enough.

If a demo can be built over a weekend, founders need to prove something deeper: judgment, speed, customer insight, resilience, and a real reason why they can win.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why venture capital carries more negative energy than outsiders realize

• Why startup success is unique, but failure patterns repeat

• The anti-patterns that quietly kill early-stage companies

• Why Itamar still bets heavily on founders at pre-seed

• What changed now that vibe coding makes demos cheap

• Why AI companies need real data moats, not just clever wrappers

• Why Itamar believes AI may be the biggest tech wave yet — and still a bubble

This is a conversation about founders, VCs, anti-patterns, AI, risk, resilience, and how to avoid building the kind of startup that looks promising right until it falls apart.

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Win the Attention War with Jonathan Karmi

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:38:15 GMT

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Jonathan Karmi has spent more than a decade inside performance marketing, working across hundreds of clients and watching one problem get harder every year:

Attention is disappearing.

Today, the average social media user scrolls the height of the Eiffel Tower every day. For direct-to-consumer brands, that means the battle is no longer just about targeting, budgets, or bidding.

It is about creative.

In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Jonathan Karmi, Co-Founder & CEO of Wider, for a conversation about AI, advertising, creative fatigue, founder psychology, and what it takes to build a company in a market that changes almost every week.

Jonathan and his team are building what he calls the intelligence layer for creative performance: a system that uses data, AI models, and creative strategy to help brands generate ads that can actually compete in the feed.

The idea sounds simple.

Make better ads.

Lower acquisition costs.

Improve ROAS.

But in the real world, “better creative” is a black box. Brands need dozens or even hundreds of ads every week. Winning ads fatigue quickly. Generic AI tools produce generic outputs. And if everyone uses the same models, the internet starts to look like one big bowl of AI sameness.

Jonathan explains why Wider is not just generating ads. It is analyzing what works, understanding creative patterns, orchestrating different AI models, and helping brands create at scale without losing the taste, context, and performance signals that actually matter.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why creative has become the biggest lever in paid advertising

• Why D2C brands need so many ads just to stay competitive

• How AI can create more content — and more sameness

• Why Wider started manually before writing code

• How Jonathan thinks about orchestration, data, and creative strategy

• What founders should understand about building with AI from day one

• Why entrepreneurship means learning to master uncertainty

This is a conversation about attention, advertising, AI, creative performance, founder pressure, and the difference between creating more content and creating content that actually wins.

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Follow the Pain with Amir Haramaty

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:17:40 GMT

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Amir Haramaty has helped build and scale companies that were later acquired by Microsoft, Salesforce, Meta, and other major players.

But his story does not start in a boardroom.

It starts on a bridge, deep in enemy territory, wounded while trying to defuse explosives and realizing that humans were still being asked to risk their lives for problems technology should solve.

That moment shaped the rest of his career.

We sit down with Amir Haramaty, Co-Founder of aiOla, for a conversation about startups, risk, decision-making, voice AI, and the one principle that has guided much of Amir’s work: follow the pain.

Amir does not believe in entrepreneurship for entrepreneurship’s sake. He believes in finding painful, expensive, operational problems then building technology that creates measurable ROI.

That approach took him from bomb-disposal robotics to workforce management, mobile advertising, cybersecurity, AI consulting, and now aiOla: a company turning speech into structured data for enterprises where forms, inspections, reports, and workflows still depend on manual data entry.

The idea sounds simple.

People hate entering data.

Speech is faster, richer, and more natural.

But in the enterprise, “simple” is never simple. Accents, jargon, noisy environments, compliance-heavy workflows, legacy systems, adoption risk, and ROI all matter. Amir explains why aiOla’s real edge is not just voice recognition it is turning messy human speech into structured, usable data that can power workflows, agents, and business decisions.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why Amir defines himself as a “serial problem solver,” not just an entrepreneur

• How a personal experience in bomb disposal shaped his view of risk and technology

• Why ROI is still the most important language in enterprise sales

• How aiOla turns speech into structured data for real-world operations

• Why “follow the pain trail” is Amir’s operating system for finding customers

• What founders misunderstand about risk management, decision-making, and change

• Why Amir tells clients: “I guarantee failure” and why that builds trust

This is a conversation about voice, data, risk, enterprise AI, execution, trust, and the difference between building technology people admire and building technology people actually use.

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Cedric Chin: Why Smart People Make Expensive Business Mistakes?

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:26:51 GMT

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Most people only learn judgment after the damage is done.

Then reality gives them feedback: late, expensive, and with interest.

That is why serious operators and investors pay attention to Cedric Chin.

Through Commoncog, Cedric has built a business education company used by hundreds of operators and investors who want to accelerate their business expertise. His work is read by people inside top companies and investment firms because it helps them do one thing better:

Recognize the situation before they misread it.

Cedric’s goal is simple: How do you get better at business before the scar tissue arrives?

His answer is not more theory.

It is cases. Patterns. Decision research. Operating experience.

And the ability to see what kind of game you are actually in before the market teaches you the hard way.

Cedric grew up in Malaysia, studied computer science in Singapore, and then chose the messy route: running business operations in Vietnam instead of taking the safer software engineering path.

That put him inside real business early.

He helped turn an outsourcing company into a bootstrapped point-of-sale software and hardware business that grew from zero to millions in annual revenue. Later, he built Commoncog for founders, operators, and investors who want to understand how business works when clean frameworks break.

This conversation moves through Asian tycoons, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Amazon’s Weekly Business Review, accelerated expertise, naturalistic decision-making, and why the best business people do not just collect lessons from history.

They learn to read the situation.

Because in business, the danger is not being stupid.

It is being smart in the wrong frame.

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The Terrifying Art of Finding Customers with Collin Stewart

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:24:53 GMT

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In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Collin Stewart for a brutally honest conversation about revenue, ego, customer discovery, failed validation, and the painful difference between persistence and refusing to let go.

Collin started as the sales guy surrounded by engineers building software in silence.

He was the one in the phone booth.

Talking to users. Talking to customers. Trying to understand what people actually needed.

Then he built Voltage, a CRM that made sense in theory but almost nobody wanted to buy. It took him 18 months and a lot of ego death to realize the product was wrong.

Then came Carb.

A pivot that went from zero to $1M ARR in three months.

And then broke under its own weight.

Tech debt. Rushed decisions. Product gaps. Founder fear. A services business he didn’t want to build. A pandemic. Debt. Layoffs. And a long lesson in what happens when the market keeps giving you answers you don’t want to hear.

This is not a polished “how I won” founder story.

It is an experience shared from someone who got punched in the face by the market, learned how revenue actually works, and wrote the book (XX) he wished he had when he was sleep-deprived and terrified.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why founders accidentally bias their own customer interviews

• Why product-market fit is not binary — and how to measure its strength

• The painful story of Voltage, Carb, and the cost of ignoring the market

• Why going from $0 to $1M ARR too fast can still become a disaster

• How to know when persistence becomes refusal to let go

• Why pricing conversations should happen earlier than most founders think

• How to turn customer discovery into your first real sales funnel

This is a conversation about sales, shame, ego, survival, bad products, better questions, and the founder’s real job:

Finding customers before the market teaches you the hard way.

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Eran Shir of Nexar: From Missile Defense to Uncrashable Cars

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:02:49 GMT

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Eran Shir started as a theoretical physicist studying black holes. Then he helped build Israel’s Arrow missile unit. Then he crowdsourced a map of the internet. Then he sold an AI company to Yahoo.

And somehow, that was all before Nexar.

In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Eran Shir, co-founder of Nexar, for a conversation about one of the hardest frontiers in AI: making machines understand the physical world.

Not the clean, predictable world of demos.

The real world.

The one with bad drivers, potholes, snowstorms, unicycles, kids chasing balls into the street, broken stop signs, fleet operators, latency constraints, cheap edge devices, and edge cases that can kill people.

Nexar began with a deceptively simple question:

What if your phone camera could see the road the way Waze sees traffic?

That idea became a network of hundreds of thousands of connected vehicles, collecting billions of miles of real-world driving data every year — including tens of millions of rare, weird, dangerous, impossible-to-stage scenarios.

Eran explains why the future of autonomy is not only about better algorithms. It is about data density, edge intelligence, economics, and the messy long tail of reality.

He also shares the story behind BADASS 2.0, Nexar’s world model for collision prediction, explainability, planning, and risk avoidance — and why its behavior outside driving scenarios surprised even the team that built it.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why Eran calls himself a “failed physicist”

• How Israel’s Arrow missile program shaped his thinking about speed, constraints, and execution

• Why crowdsourcing became the recurring pattern of his career

• The difference between AI in the cloud and AI in the physical world

• Why autonomous driving is a “where” question, not a “when” question

• How Nexar built a real-world vision network across hundreds of thousands of vehicles

• Why edge cases matter more than average cases

• The economics of collecting road data when other companies spend millions to get it

• Why some automakers were further behind than outsiders realized

• What BADASS 2.0 can do — and why it may generalize beyond cars

• How AI is changing what it means to manage, build, and lead inside a company

• Why Eran believes everyone is becoming a manager of agents

• What founders underestimate about hardware, autonomy, and human adaptability

This is a conversation about roads, physics, AI, defense systems, drones, startups, and the strange moment we are entering. Where software no longer just understands text.

It is starting to understand motion, risk, and the world itself.

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Yair Attar on Building an “Too Early” Startup That Got Acquired Twice

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:29:08 GMT

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Yair Attar spent years leading nation-state incident response in the IDF before co-founding OTORIO an OT cybersecurity company built for the physical world: factories, critical infrastructure, industrial systems, and the environments where a cyberattack can shut down real operations.

Then came two major exits in rapid succession.

OTORIO was acquired by Armis. Not long after, Armis itself was acquired by ServiceNow.

But this conversation isn’t about headline-chasing or founder mythology. It’s about what building an “early” category actually feels like when customers don’t fully believe in the problem yet, budgets haven’t formed, and your market education costs more than your product development.

Yair breaks down the decisions and tradeoffs behind the growth:

• Why their early funding strategy looked more like a long-term operating plan than a traditional seed round

• What makes selling into industrial and OT environments uniquely difficult

• How being “too early” can quietly kill otherwise good companies

• Why competition can validate a market faster than your marketing ever will

• The shift that took them from “interesting technology” to win rates above 80%

• What buyers and boards really debate during acquisition conversations

• And what changes after the deal closes, when you suddenly have to integrate into a larger platform while still building

One of the most interesting parts of the conversation is Yair’s view on AI. His argument is that capability isn’t the bottleneck anymore — adoption is. Most companies aren’t struggling because the technology can’t do enough. They’re struggling because organizations, workflows, incentives, and trust move slower than the models do.

This episode is for founders, operators, investors, and anyone building in markets where timing matters almost as much as product quality.

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Guy Solomon on Buying a Company, Losing 90% of Revenue, and Still Winning

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:15:44 GMT

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Guy Solomon left investment banking to buy a small business.

After years at Barclays and Wells Fargo, he went deep into the world of Search Funds and Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) in Israel — a market filled with profitable, often overlooked SMEs that nobody was really institutionalizing yet.

But this wasn’t a straight-line success story.

Guy screened more than 8,000 companies, met with 150+ owners, acquired Dublo, and then had the business stress-tested almost immediately. COVID hit. Revenue dropped roughly 90%. A major database corruption nearly took the company down. Suddenly, the work wasn’t about models or deal structure anymore it was about customers, cash flow, leadership, and keeping a team steady when the pressure got real.

Years later, the company was successfully sold to a TA Associates-backed buyer.

This conversation is a grounded look at what buying and operating a business actually feels like once the acquisition closes:

• How Search Funds and ETA work in practice

• What makes an owner-operated business worth buying

• Why “boring” businesses are often much harder than they look

• How to lead when revenue disappears almost overnight

• What customer obsession looks like operationally — not just philosophically

• Why EOS and core values only matter if they hold up under stress

• And what changes when you go from advising companies to carrying payroll yourself

If you’re an entrepreneur, operator, investor, or someone thinking about buying a business instead of starting one from zero, this episode gets into the parts people usually leave out.

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This Startup Built a Robot to Fight Wildfires | Gadi Benjamini, CEO of FireDome

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:08:13 GMT

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In this episode, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Gadi Benjamini, Co-Founder & CEO of FireDome, an ex–Israeli intelligence operator from Unit 81 turned deep-tech founder building an autonomous, on-site wildfire defense system.

This conversation starts with collapse: Gadi shutting down his first climate startup after October 7, going through the emotional crash that follows, and then finding his way into a problem that feels almost ancient and futuristic at the same time: fire.

Wildfires are no longer distant natural disasters. They are becoming a stress test for humanity for our infrastructure, insurance systems, communities, governments, and ability to protect what we love before it disappears.

Gadi and his co-founder, Adi Naor Pomerantz, saw what many people only realize after the smoke clears: insurance may compensate you, but it does not protect your home, your vineyard, your factory, your campsite, your memories, or your continuity.

That insight became FireDome: a hardware-software system designed to detect, prepare for, and suppress wildfire threats on-site before they become unstoppable.

We get tactical on:

• Why “insurance ≠ protection”

• The human drama behind wildfires: homes, communities, wineries, campsites, and generational businesses lost in hours

• Why fires expose the limits of modern civilization

• The FireDome approach: firebreak + structure coating + rapid detection/suppression

• How ember showers create a domino effect through neighborhoods

• Hardware realities: capsules, cadence, water logistics, wind, manufacturing, and deployment

• What Palisades-style fires revealed about prevention, firefighting, and resilience

• How founders can capture attention authentically by speaking directly to the pain people already feel

This is a conversation about deep tech, climate adaptation, founder resilience, and what it means to build when the problem is not theoretical — it is already burning.

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Elizabeth Zalman on Why Investors Aren’t Your Friends

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:14:18 GMT

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Elizabeth Zalman is a 4x founder who’s raised ~$80M, built StrongDM, and now leads Sandgarden while also co-authoring “Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO” with Jerry Neumann.

We talk about how she started as a scrappy eBay/consignment hustle that forced Elizabeth to build software before she ever “became a founder.” Then we go deep on her hard-earned lessons on how to choose investors, run boards without losing control, and why her rule is “Never send your deck.”

In this episode, we cover:

• The “Never Send Your Deck” rule—and how it changes your fundraising dynamics

• Why investors aren’t your friends (and how to build a healthy, productive relationship anyway)

• How to run board meetings that actually help (including when to use pre-reads vs live discussion)

• Sandgarden’s pivot into Doc.Holiday and what AI changes about shipping code and documenting it

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Eric Malka & The Art of Shaving from Start-Up to a P&G Exit

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:10:16 GMT

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Eric Malka arrived in NYC on a Greyhound bus with no money, no education, and no green card, and then built The Art of Shaving from a single 200-sq-ft shop into a $100M+ brand acquired by Procter & Gamble. We talk about turning story + customer obsession into a premium brand from creation to exit.

We unpack:

• The “New York Times moment” that took sales from $10K/month to $10K/day

• How to build a culture that scales (and why one bad salesperson can kill a brand)

• M&A lessons: earn-outs, bankers, fear/greed, and protecting founders from themselves

• What Eric does now: Strategic Brand Investments helping founders win in beauty, wellness, and grooming

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Ra’anan Cohen: IPOs, Unicorns & Black Swans, oh my!

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:04:36 GMT

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Ra’anan Cohen has lived the full founder arc: he built one company to an IPO (MobileMax), built another into a unicorn (Bringg), then wrote a brutally honest memoir that became a bestselling business book in Israel—and is now being adapted into a TV series.

In this episode, Ra’anan and Haggai go into the decisions that define a founder’s life: the moment Ra’anan turned down a $10M offer to take money off the table (and what it taught him about risk, ego, and timing), the “Black Swan” events you can’t predict (like the iPhone) that can erase entire business models overnight, and the messy reality of boards, investors, and secondaries—when to take chips off the table, and when to stay hungry.

What you’ll learn

• How to think about “life-changing money” vs. “founder pride”

• Why Black Swans hit founders harder than markets—and how to build resilience anyway

• The real tradeoffs of secondaries, dilution, and investor dynamics

• What Ra’anan wishes he knew from the beginning

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Neal Foard on Storytelling That Wins Trust

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:17:18 GMT

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Haggai is a paying customer of Neal Foard’s Storyfire—and this episode is the “how it actually works” playbook. After 30+ years in advertising and sales, Neal has a simple conviction: most people don’t lose deals because their product is weak—they lose because their story is forgettable.

We talk about the real mechanics behind persuasion: why the best pitches feel like show business, how to turn your messaging into a “love letter” your customers actually want to read, and why “kindness” can be a ruthless competitive advantage when everyone else sounds the same. If you sell anything—an idea, a product, a vision—this conversation will sharpen your edge.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The “Broadway” approach to building a pitch: stakes → tension → payoff

• The love-letter framework that turns features into felt value

• How to make every meeting “the best part of their day” (and win repeat business)

• Why most marketing fails: it’s too smart and not human enough

• Where AI helps—and where humans still dominate: taste, empathy, trust

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Stop Living in Overdraft: RiseUp CEO Yuval Samet on Cash Flow & AI

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:09:34 GMT

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Yuval Samet helped scale Klarna from ~150 to ~2,000 people—then came back to Israel to tackle the most “quietly painful” problem in daily life: money stress. As CEO of RiseUp, he’s building financial wellbeing at scale by turning messy bank + card data into one clear picture of disposable income, plus step-by-step actions people actually follow.

Yuval grew up with discussions about bank debt “as a guest at the dinner table”. That personal story became the company’s mission—and led to one of the most unconventional go-to-markets you’ll hear: sushi-and-wine house parties with customers about money, to learn how people really talk about finances, earn trust, and build a product that drives behavior change (not just dashboards).

In this episode, we cover:

• Why “compassionate capitalism” is more practical than it sounds

• How RiseUp nudges people into real action: groceries, bills, bank fees, utilities, and more

• What building on WhatsApp taught Yuval about platform risk (the hard way)

• Where AI fits next: from recommendations → automated financial execution

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Jason Wolf’s Wild Startup-to-VC Journey: From $400M SAP Exit to Iron Nation

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:06:50 GMT

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Jason Wolf joins Haggai Klorman Eraqi for a rare, behind-the-scenes conversation about building (and investing) when the world is literally shaking. Jason helped scale TopTier to a $400M cash acquisition by SAP, lived through the Better Place era, and today co-leads Iron Nation—a VC fund created three days after Oct 7 to keep Israeli startups alive when term sheets were getting pulled overnight.

Iron Nation backed 24 startups in its first year—and already celebrated a first exit: illumex → NVIDIA. Jason breaks down what global investors often miss about Israeli resilience, how a wartime fund actually makes decisions, and what “good founders” look like when pressure isn’t theoretical.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Iron Nation was built in days—and how they selected investments from 1,000+ applicants

• Why term sheets vanished after Oct 7 (and what the best founders did next)

• The 4 traits Jason believes great founders must have (and how to spot them fast)

• The operator-to-investor trap: “I can see the puzzle completed… but the pieces are missing”

• AI’s real impact on jobs, budgets, and why the only move is to participate

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Omer Menashe’s Entrepreneurial Stack: From Law to Startups, Agencies & an AI Venture Studio

Haggai Klorman Eraqi — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:58:58 GMT

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Omer Menashe has been building for nearly two decades—startups, a long-running agency, and now a venture studio designed for the AI era. In this episode, he unpacks the “lifelong entrepreneur” path: why he became a lawyer (and why he quit immediately), how early internet hacking/piracy shaped his builder DNA, and how he turned digital marketing into a repeatable growth engine—powering Clyr, 1Flo, and Lightway Digital.

It’s a conversation about what actually breaks (and what survives) when you build in “digital-only” industries—plus why Omer believes AI is about to compress white-collar work faster than most founders are willing to admit.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How his first company scaled mobile dev + education when “mobile” was still rare in Israel

• The agency reality: why “we said yes to everything” worked early—and why it was a long-term mistake

• The most underrated growth channel: relationships, referrals, and “give before you ask” in practice

• Why Omer thinks agencies are in a “golden age” right before AI eats the margins

• His venture studio thesis: shifting from digital labor to physical services/products as an AI hedge

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